Monday, November 2, 2015

Over the past month, I participated in the Inktober challenge for the first time, which means I made and uploaded one ink drawing for every day of the month. If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you've probably already seen most of these, but I made this new collage of all 31 drawings for the blog:

If you want to see these in a little more detail, you should have a look at my Instagram or these 6 Tumblr posts:

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

This past weekend, I was at my 6th(!) 24h Comic Day event in Leipzig. Now that I'd completed the challenge a couple of times, I thought I'd try a little something different, and pre-wrote a longer script, of which I only drew the first part (of 2). At 19 pages, it's not really a proper ‪‎#24HCD‬ comic, but it's the exact part of the story I prepared and wanted to get done. Here's a photo of the pages as they looked at the end of the 24h time period:

Here's a photo of the whole 24h comic-drawing troupe during a pizza break (shot by my gf Katja Klengel):

And here's a before/after group shot (left: Saturday at noon, right: Sunday at noon):

There's a very entertaining longer report about the event by first-timer David Füleki on his blog (in German): READ IT

I will likely edit and color my own 24h comic soon, although I might wait with its publication until I draw the second part at our next 24h Comic Day in spring. In the meantime, you can read all my other 24h comics HERE.

Friday, October 2, 2015

These are some life drawings from two recent(-ish) 'Drink & Draw' events in Berlin. One of them had a 50s theme, the other an 80s theme. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen these, but in case you're only following the blog, here you go:

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

I know, I know – I told you Hipsters was over. But last Saturday, I participated in a 12-hour comic contest and spontaneously decided to draw an all-new 12-page Hipsters comic for it. I hope you like it!

Lastly, there are some comic readings. The first one's "Bitstorm - Worst of Weißworst" on Friday night, which is a "worst of" reading where I'll read a fun/bad German superhero comic I drew over ten years ago!
And finally, there's a big JAZAM! reading on Saturday around noon: "Best of JAZAM!". I'll be reading several comics there, including all of "Hipsters in Hell".

Thursday, April 23, 2015

A few days ago, the new volume of German indie comics anthology extraordinaire JAZAM! came out. As usual, I'm one of the editors and publishers and did all of the editorial design and a short comic for it. Not so usual: as this is our tenth(!) volume, the entire book is in color! And it has this amazing cover by Sascha Wüstefeld:

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

After a long, silent gestation period, suddenly a lot of my projects are ready to hatch.

You may remember that last year, I published a 24-hour comic called "Offline Dating". You may also remember that I mentioned a sequel to said comic, which came into being during the most recent 24-Hour Comic Day in Leipzig in September of 2014. Well, now I'm finally done coloring the sequel and am about to put out a little book containing both parts of "Offline Dating". The book will be called "Love and Monsters", and this is the cover:

As you can see, there will be both a German and an English edition.

You'll be able to get these at various comic conventions and, presumably, at Kwimbi. But first, I have to wait for the printer to actually deliver them. With any luck, they'll be ready in time for the Leipzig book fair in March.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Have I mentioned that there will be a big Hipsters reading in Dresden next month? It's on March 8 at "Sabotage" Dresden at 6:00 pm. Have a look at the Facebook event for more details.

If you can't make it to Dresden, there's a good chance there will be another reading in Berlin in April or so!

To promote the reading, Katja, Tim, and I shot a live-action trailer! The weather was much shittier than expected and we kind of froze our asses off, but I think it still turned out pretty well! Watch it here: